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Not the Plot

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27 episodes

4 days ago

Danni Line has been hooked on reading since childhood and fell in love with writing in her senior year, thanks to a crush on her English teacher. She writes Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance where her characters find redemption through romance. When Danni isn’t juggling life as a wife, mum, and wannabe baker who wishes she could sing, she is the Aspiring Authors Ambassador for Romance Writers of Australia. In this episode of Not the Plot host Teena Raffa-Mulligan Danni reveals her favo...

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Danni Line has been hooked on reading since childhood and fell in love with writing in her senior year, thanks to a crush on her English teacher. She writes Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance where her characters find redemption through romance. When Danni isn’t juggling life as a wife, mum, and wannabe baker who wishes she could sing, she is the Aspiring Authors Ambassador for Romance Writers of Australia. In this episode of Not the Plot host Teena Raffa-Mulligan Danni reveals her favo...

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Episodes (20/27)

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Danni Line - Redemption through Romance

Danni Line has been hooked on reading since childhood and fell in love with writing in her senior year, thanks to a crush on her English teacher. She writes Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance where her characters find redemption through romance. When Danni isn’t juggling life as a wife, mum, and wannabe baker who wishes she could sing, she is the Aspiring Authors Ambassador for Romance Writers of Australia. In this episode of Not the Plot host Teena Raffa-Mulligan Danni reveals her favo...

2 weeks ago

24 minutes

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Bonnibelle Angelica - Creating a dystopian world

Bonnibelle Angelica is a debut author from rural Australia. Growing up with a love for creativity, she has done everything from sculpting to painting to costume design, but nothing has held her attention quite like writing. After a burst of popularity from her online publications, she decided to give a novel a go. Loud and ever-opinionated, she chose dystopian sci-fi as her genre, exploring biology, oppression, indoctrination, psychology and of course, a healthy dose of romance. In this episo...

1 month ago

27 minutes

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Riley Merigan - Taking to the Stage

Riley Merigan is a Perth-based performer, actor, dancer and singer who has appeared in a range of community theatre productions since taking a lead role in his high school performance of the musical Grease as a fifteen-year-old. The buzz of performing in that show sparked his love of performance and led to two years full-time study of musical theatre. In this episode of Not the Plot, Riley chats with host Teena Raffa-Mulligan about getting into character, preparing for performances, fac...

1 month ago

31 minutes

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Holly Cardamone - Inspired by real-life shenanigans

Holly Cardamone is an award-winning Australian author and communications specialist. Her writing has appeared in publications as diverse as bridal tomes and in fashion magazines, in trade publications and in the large dailies. Her debut novel, Summer, in Between was the 2024 winner of the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize and she has been long and short listed in a number of national short story awards. Holly weaves words with an Australian Shepherd on her feet and says her work...

2 months ago

25 minutes

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William Lane - A personal perspective

Australian author William Lane lives in a quiet, rural corner of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. When he is not writing, he loves to read, play vinyl records or make up songs while looking out his window at the Brokenback Range. He has been a teacher, business manager and academic. His sixth novel, Saturation, was released recently. In this episode of Not the Plot he shares insights into his creative process and development as a writer and his thoughts on the future of the nov...

2 months ago

20 minutes

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Steve Heron - Affirmative vandal and hooligan of hope

Steve Heron is an award-winning children’s book author and champion of wellbeing in children. When he’s not hanging out with the local cheeky magpies, or reminiscing about his puppetry and TV presenter days, he’s crafting stories that touch and tickle the hearts of children. In this episode of Not the Plot he chats with host Teena Raffa-Mulligan about bully proofing, magpies, art, photography and navigating the challenges of living a creative life. You can find out more about Stev...

2 months ago

26 minutes

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Belinda Lyons-Lee - Fiction inspired by fact

Belinda Lyons-Lee is an Australian historical fiction author whose latest novel is a page-turning gothic mystery based on the events that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Belinda loves books. Stories. Tales and Adventures. Those that are ‘true’, and those that aren’t. She teaches English, Literature and creative writing in secondary schools and enjoys inspiring young people to connect with their own creativity. In this episode of Not the Plot she chats with host...

3 months ago

28 minutes

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Robbie Coburn - Life through the lens of poetry

Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet and author of the young adult verse novel The Foal in the Wire, released in June by Hachette Australia. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and he has published four full-length poetry collections. Robbie grew up on a farm in Regional Victoria. He began writing poetry at the age of fourteen and his first publication was three years later. In this episode of Not the Plot, he speaks with host Teena Raffa-Mulligan about dealing w...

3 months ago

22 minutes

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Lee Battersby - Finding that true voice

Lee Battersby is an award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. At various times in his life, he has been a stand-up comic, tennis coach, cartoonist, poet, tax officer and an arts and culture coordinator for a local council. Lee admits to an obsession with Lego, Nottingham Forest Football Club, dinosaurs and Daleks. In this episode of Not the Plot he chats with host Teena Raffa-Mulligan about returning to writing after a break, the best advice he was given on living ...

4 months ago

33 minutes

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Tracy Ryan – Writing historical fiction that engages today’s readers

Tracy Ryan has taught literature, creative writing and film at various universities in Australia and England, and worked as a bookseller, editor and translator. Her poetry has won many awards and she is the author of six critically acclaimed novels. Tracy’s most recent novels focus on the Queens of Navarre. In this Episode of Not the Plot Tracy shares her inspiration behind these novels, the challenges of writing carefully researched historical fiction that is an engaging story for today’s re...

4 months ago

26 minutes

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Jennifer Bagg – Performing with passion

Jennifer Bagg is an award-winning artist creating work at the intersection of theatre, dance and performance art. She is based between Estonia, the United Kingdom and Australia, and having called multiple cities around the world home, cultural contrast is often the starting point for her work. In this episode of Not the Plot, Jennifer chats with host Teena Raffa-Mulligan about puppeteering, her passion for creating live performance experiences, and the challenges of funding a creative life.&n...

4 months ago

27 minutes

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Gretchen Shirm – Finding the right words

Gretchen Shirm was a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist and two of her novels were shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Awards. Her short fiction and literary criticism have been published widely. Gretchen worked as a public law lawyer for more than a decade, and now teaches creative writing. In this episode of Not the Plot, Gretchen shares her thoughts on the power of narrative and storytelling, the ways in which law writing are b...

5 months ago

30 minutes

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Alyssa Curtayne – Breathing new life into old stories

Alyssa Curtayne is a passionate storyteller, writer, and researcher who is on a mission to breathe new life into forgotten fairy tales and the ancient art of storytelling. With a deep love for the old stories and the timeless lessons they hold, she is dedicated to reviving these tales and the traditions of the original tale-tellers, ensuring they continue to inspire and encourage imagination, creativity and wonder for future generations. A former journalist and English teacher, she has a stro...

5 months ago

27 minutes

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James Foley - Drawing on Inspiration

James Foley is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist who started his career in primary school drawing cartoons for the school newspaper. He is now an award-winning children’s books creator with a growing collection of picture books, middle grade novels and graphic novels to add to his author-illustrator bookshelf. His favourite part of the job is presenting workshops at schools and libraries around the country. In this episode of Not the Plot James chats with host Teena Raffa-Mulligan about hi...

6 months ago

30 minutes

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Sandi Parsons - sharing stories to inform, inspire and entertain

Sandi Parsons describes herself as a book nerd, cystic fibrosis warrior, mother, transplant recipient and unicornologist who lives and breathes stories, as a reader, writer and storyteller. She shares her home with her favourite husband, some problem puppies and many teetering stacks of books. In this episode of Not the Plot host Teena Raffa-Mulligan chats with Sandi about unicorns, the power of storytelling, why she writes, and the reader she has in mind when creating her stories. ...

6 months ago

24 minutes

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Katrina Kell - Inspired to Re-imagine History

Katrina Kell’s recent novel, Chloe, was inspired by one of Australia’s most iconic paintings, which has graced the walls of Young and Jackson Hotel since 1909. ‘Having a drink with Chloé’ has been a good luck ritual for Australian soldiers since WWI, a tradition that has continued throughout the decades. In this episode of Not the Plot, host Teena Raffa-Mulligan chats with Katy about how she came to write Chloe’s story, the research she undertook about the model who posed for the painti...

6 months ago

30 minutes

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Norman Jorgensen - Adventuring on the page

Master storyteller Norman Jorgensen crafts tales about small heroes, smugglers, Vikings, pirates and Anzacs for young readers. Norman fell in love with books at an early age and has spent nearly all his life working in the book trade surrounded by the works of authors and illustrators he admires. He developed a love of history from reading historical novels, as well as from watching old Hollywood movies, and these influences are often reflected in his own work. In this episode of Not th...

6 months ago

34 minutes

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Andrea Goldsmith - The irresistibility of story

Critically acclaimed novelist and essayist Andrea Goldsmith discovered the wonderful world of reading as a child and as soon as she learned that books were written by real people, she decided that was what she wanted to do. Her first novel was published 35 years ago. Her ninth title, The Buried Life, was released recently, and is a story of love and friendship, faith and fundamentalism, subtly underscored by the power of poetry and music. In this episode of Not the Plot, Andrea chats wi...

7 months ago

28 minutes

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Ann Dombroski - From short fiction writer to novelist

Ann Dombroski’s prize-winning short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies and she recently celebrated the release of her debut novel After the Great Storm, a novel of threat and intrigue set in Sydney 50 years from now. It’s a story whose characters refuse to give up on love regardless of cost, and ultimately asks the question, 'When corruption becomes endemic, how can we save our moral code?' In this episode of Not the Plot, host Teena Raffa-Mulligan chats with Ann about ...

7 months ago

29 minutes

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Lisa Holland - Giving voice to first-person stories

Lisa Holland is a corporate affairs specialist, journalist and author who writes books that she hopes will make a difference in the world. Her non-fiction books feature Aboriginal Australians, remarkable women and exceptional people overcoming difficult challenges. Lisa enjoys capturing first-hand accounts at a marked time in history so people can see what the world was like at that time because history can be rewritten further down the track. In this episode of Not the Plot, host Teena...

7 months ago

28 minutes